I’ve always considered the fascinating career of David Cronenberg to be not unlike the evolving life cycle of the venereal horrors he frequently touches upon
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Psycho (1960) – Review
Technically speaking, I have never seen Psycho – at least not in the way that rotund blonde botherer Alfred Hitchcock had intended. After all who
Red Dragon (2002) – Review
Of all the attempts to confine Hannibal Lector, Thomas Harris’ irresistibly refined bogeyman on the screen, none has had more versions than his original appearance
Escape From New York (1981) – Review
John Carpenter has always been known as a director who’s always been somewhat ahead of his time – hell, let’s be honest here, we’re only
Unhinged (2020) – Review
Cinema has more than it’s fair share of mental cases lurking in plain sight, just waiting to obsessively stalk normal, everyday folk for our entertainment.
Jurassic World (2015) – Review
Films that divide audiences like Moses compartmentalising the Dead Sea aren’t exactly new, especially in these times of toxic fandom and the internet giving everyone
Jurassic Park III (2001) – Review
Back between 1993 and 1997, when the original Jurassic Park and it’s sequel burst into the public consciousness like a rampaging saurian ploughing through a
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) – Review
If you ever needed an example of how truly brilliant Steven Spielberg is you would have to look no further than 1993.Why is that year
Unbreakable (2000) – Review
As someone who reviews movies for neither fame or fortune (come to think of it… why the hell AM I reviewing movies then?), I pride
Split (2016) – Review
Emerging from the impressive tailspin that pretty much left his name in tatters, that cheeky little Spielberg/Hitchcockian hybrid known as M. Night “what a twist!”
VFW (2019) – Review
It seems you can’t swing an axe around without hitting yet another grimy, gory, grindhouse throwback that’s springing up on streaming services everywhere. It’s a
The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) – Review
There are a fair few genres that the Oscars have routinely turned their nose up, with Fantasy, Action and Horror rarely getting the nod when
BlacKkKlansman (2018) – Review
First up, let me level with you all…This is the first Spike Lee movie I ever got round to seeing. I know, I know! Legitimately
Inception (2010) – Review
After impressing the cinema going public with such standout movies such as Momento and The Prestige (two films as notoriously twisty as a piece of
The Visit (2015) – Review
After a seemingly endless string of movies that turned out to be boring, dopey or just outright awful, it seemed that Hollywood twist fanatic M.
The Hunt (2020) – Review
After a rocky road to multiplexes, Blumhouse’s gory, satirical thriller finally makes it’s theatrical bow after pissing off a good selection of people (including a
The Invisible Man (2020) – Review
After Tom Cruise’s 2017 brush with The Mummy failed to jump start Universal’s Dark Universe – an MCU style franchise of connected films that was
Hollow Man (2000) – Review
Before we dig into Paul Verhoven’s tale of transparent tension I’m going to do something a little different – I’m going to tell you a
The Rhythm Section (2020) – Review
The life of someone who lives under faked identities in order to bring a swift demise to unsuspecting wrong-doers must be insanely stressful, as spiralling
Sicario: Day Of The Soldado (2018) – Review
The first Sicario, a flawless, brutal yet grimly beautiful thriller concerning policing the Mexican cartels and the dodgy, godless shit the government spooks pull to
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